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TIL that all time travel movies are banned in China.

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d8QKQ TIL Galileo was a prolific writer of scientific dialogues and the first entirely new translation of his major writings for more than fifty years was only published in 2012
R7DD8 TIL during the Apollo 11 lunar descent, Neil Armstrong, who was manually piloting the craft, heart rate was under 90bpm. After the Eagle touched down, it spiked to almost 160 bpm
R7JPa TIL Viagra is given to some premature babies to increase oxygen transport by widening the blood vessels, as their lungs often haven't developed enough to transport oxygen efficiently on their own
aw1oN TIL that John Rhys-Davies (also Gimli in Lord of the Rings) is the original voice actor for Man Ray in early seasons of Spongebob Squarepants
d860Z TIL that a Power plant can turn waste to energy | Ethiopia